My brother is so cunning

Chapter 977 On the Eve of the Birth of the New World

As Puna expected, most of the Zhou people's teenagers remained skeptical after watching the documentary.

Ordinary people in this era are quite isolated from news, and some never even leave their hometown more than a hundred miles away in their entire lives.

From the perspective of an ordinary Zhou person, they experienced an unprecedented drought, and the government seized their remaining grain, plunging the entire city into famine.

Before the demonic insects could hunt the mortals of the Southern Continent, they were lured out by a special operations team dispatched by the Demon Alliance under the guise of distributing relief food, and then blasted into dry bodies by dehydration rays, falling into a deep sleep.

As the saying goes, seeing is believing. Although the documentary also shows real scenes, it is not something you can see with your own eyes. Moreover, many Zhou people who have never seen a movie in their lives cannot understand this kind of projected image and may even think it is some kind of illusion or magic.

Puna didn't bother to explain, signaled the Ultron robot to open the tent door, and went out first.

Inside the large tent, the Ultron robot, with its metal fingers flashing with electricity, forced the group of Zhou youths to step out of the tent.

The boys quickly looked around to check their surroundings.

Since they awoke, they had been inside a huge tent. Although these temporary tents were simple, they were very sturdy, and there were iron men supervising them. Any rash move would result in an electric shock, so they dared not try to break the tent and escape.

Only now can I breathe fresh air for the first time and see the scenery outside.

It was April, a warm and pleasant time of year, with bright sunshine outdoors.

They were in a deforestation forest. The ground had been leveled, but the turned soil was fresh, clearly just finished.

Looking around, all you can see are lush forests and mountains, with abundant vegetation. Animals can be seen flashing by in the forests from time to time, and birdsong fills the air.

The surrounding mountains and fields looked very familiar, and many of the teenagers immediately recognized them as the outlines of the barren mountains outside the city where they used to live.

The only difference is that those barren mountains are now covered with towering trees.

There has long been a misconception among modern people that the environment in ancient times was very good, with extremely high forest coverage.

However, in reality, the environmental damage in the mountains and fields near human activity areas is much more severe than in modern times, especially in terms of vegetation coverage, which has been almost completely destroyed.

In ancient times, people mainly used wood as fuel. Whether for heating or cooking, they burned branches and firewood collected from nearby mountains and forests.

Over time, the forests near the city were completely cut down, and woodcutters had to travel a long way to collect timber and then transport it to the city to sell.

When the boys looked back at the city where they had lived in their memories, they could not see a trace of it. The rammed earth walls and the low buildings inside the city had long been replaced by dense jungle.

The original site of the city has become a dense forest. The terrain is relatively flat, and there are rivers flowing around it, so it can only be considered a good location for building a city.

"This place feels so familiar, it's like our hometown."

"How long have we been asleep? Not only is my home gone, but the entire city has vanished..."

"As shown in the video just now, when the Creator God was fighting the Demon Ancestor, he unleashed the True Fire of the Sun, burning everything to ashes. He later used the Breath of Earth to reshape the Southern Continent, but he only restored the landscape and did not restore the destroyed cities."

"What are we going to do? How are we going to survive in this wilderness? Where are our parents?"

……

The boys began to murmur amongst themselves, and Puna patiently waited for them to discuss until they fully understood the current situation before continuing to speak.

“Don’t worry, your parents will be revived in the next batch, and everyone else in the city will be awakened one after another.” Puna’s words made the boys breathe a sigh of relief.

"But don't place too much hope in them, because for a long time to come, you will be in charge, you will be directing them, directing those adults to complete the rebuilding of the homes."

However, what Puna said next plunged all the boys into fear once again.

“We’re going to command adults? That won’t do. We don’t know anything about this…”

"Yes, and besides, the adults won't listen to us."

"Boys are told by adults that they are too young to be reliable and have no right to talk about serious matters before they have come of age. As for us girls, we can't even sit at the table to eat. How can we give orders to those adults?"

……

"If you don't understand, you can learn."

With a stern face, Puna lectured, "Back then, I was just a Western cat demon who didn't know many characters and couldn't even speak much Chinese from the Southern Continent. I still managed to get a college diploma in three years. You completed your enlightenment education at the Creation Palace, so your starting point is at least higher than mine. Why can't you learn it?"

"As for anyone who dares to disobey your orders, we'll see if they can withstand the electric shocks!"

"Don't worry, we won't put you in overly complicated work from the start."

Shifting her tone, Puna said gently, "As long as you can understand the documents I sign, you can convey them to the other Zhou people without any discount and order them to comply."

"The first decree I will issue is that you organize multiple logging teams to clear the mountains and collect enough timber resources to build temporary settlements."

"I will also issue you the design drawings and construction procedures for the temporary wooden houses. You should study them carefully, select carpenters from the Zhou people, and have you direct the construction to build a small village that can accommodate 10,000 people as soon as possible."

……

In the Zhou people's plan to govern Zhou, the Demon Alliance will not provide much support to the people of Zhou who have lost their homes, and can only guarantee the food needs of these 10 million people for two to three years.

Rebuilding homes, resuming production, and restoring order all depend on the Zhou people's own efforts.

Even the landlords had no surplus grain. The Demon Alliance suffered far greater losses than the already impoverished Great Zhou Dynasty after this calamity.

The Demon Alliance's restoration of production refers to the rebuilding of destroyed industries, modern animal husbandry, and modern agriculture. The demand for resources and the workload are many times greater than those of the Great Zhou Dynasty.

The fact that the Demon Alliance could squeeze out some food from between their teeth to help the people of Great Zhou is already a testament to their benevolence and righteousness in considering that they are all living beings.

As for whether to admit Zhou people into the Demon Alliance and grant them Demon Alliance citizenship, there is considerable debate within the Demon Alliance's Supreme Council.

The Zhou people's population is far greater than that of the Demon Alliance. Once they merge with the Demon Alliance, the Demon Alliance's population structure will undergo a huge change.

Moreover, to put it bluntly, in the eyes of the Demon Alliance's higher-ups, the people of Great Zhou were all low-educated trash, and absorbing them would not bring any benefits to the Demon Alliance; on the contrary, it would cause a series of social problems.

This group of people is no good!
After several meetings of the Supreme Council, the final decision was to dismantle the Great Zhou Dynasty and establish multiple autonomous regions for the former vassal states.

The format was similar to the previous Zhou Dynasty's enfeoffment of feudal lords, but the essential difference was that there were no noble lords who were mandated by heaven, only the elected chief executive of the autonomous region.

(End of this chapter)